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Somewhere in the 80s, trucker Jack Burton arrives in a small town to deliver his cargo and win a few bucks playing cards with the locals down at the Chinese market. Practically bankrupting nearly all of his opponents, his friend Wang bets him a game of "double or nothing" to try and regain his cash and loses. Jack wants his well earned money, but Wang explains he doesn't have the cash on him and that'll he pay later because he's due to pick up a long, lost girlfriend from the airport. Convinced Wang's pulling something sly, Jack insists he drive Wang to the airport so they can stick together. However, at the airport Wang's girlfriend is captured by the Lords of Death, a streetwise Chinatown gang. She is essential for an upcoming plan to revive a thousand year old Chinese sorcerer and bring him back to the world as a mortal again. So begins a daring adventure to rescue Wang's girl and stop the ruthless operation that's going on down in Little China. Teaming up with a cast of very different individuals, Jack and Wang delve deep into an uncovering conspiracy in which everything's not exactly as it seems. Here comes big trouble...
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Kurt Russell |
Kim Cattrall |
Dennis Dun |
James Hong |
Victor Wong |
Kate Burton |
Donald Li |
Carter Wong |
Peter Kwong |
James Pax |
Suzee Pai |
Chao Li Chi |
Jeff Imada |
Rummel Mor |
Craig Ng |
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John Carpenter |
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Set against the backdrop of civil war and chaos in 1990's Sierra Leone, Blood Diamond is the story of Danny Archer (Leonardo DiCaprio) - an ex Mercenary from Zimbabwe - and Solomon Vandy (Djimon Hounsou) - a Mende fisherman. Both men are African, but their histories as different as any can be, until their fates become joined in a common quest to recover a rare pink diamond that can transform their lives. While in prison for smuggling, Archer learns that Solomon - who was taken from his family and forced to work in the diamond fields - has found and hidden the extraordinary rough stone. With the help of Maddy Bowen (Jennifer Connelly), an American journalist whose idealism is tempered by a deepening connection with Archer, the two men embark on a trek through rebel territory, a journey that could save Solomon's family and give Archer the second chance he thought he would never have.
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Leonardo DiCaprio |
Djimon Hounsou |
Jennifer Connelly |
Kagiso Kuypers |
Arnold Vosloo |
Antony Coleman |
Benu Mabhena |
Anointing Lukola |
David Harewood |
Basil Wallace |
Jimi Mistry |
Michael Sheen |
Marius Weyers |
Stephen Collins |
Ntare Mwine |
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Edward Zwick |
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Riddick, now a hunted man, finds himself in the middle of two opposing forces in a major crusade. 'Colm Feore' (qv) plays Lord Marshal, a warrior priest who is the leader of a sect that is waging the tenth and perhaps final crusade 500 years in the future. 'Judi Dench' (qv) is Aereon, an ambassador from the Elemental race. She is an ethereal being who helps Riddick unearth his origins.
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Vin Diesel |
Colm Feore |
Thandie Newton |
Judi Dench |
Karl Urban |
Alexa Davalos |
Linus Roache |
Yorick van Wageningen |
Nick Chinlund |
Keith David |
Mark Gibbon |
Roger R. Cross |
Terry Chen |
Christina Cox |
Nigel Vonas |
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David Twohy |
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Based upon the Tom Clancy novel of the same name, Jack Ryan, a CIA analyst, is thrust right in the middle of a power struggle within the Colombian drug cartel after one of the President's "life long" friends is murdered, apparently in retaliation for stealing money as part of a money laundering scheme for the cartel. Jack is then appointed acting Deputy Director of Intelligence, CIA, upon the terminal illness of Admiral James Greer, former DDI, and quickly gets in over his head due to his political naivete. The situation rapidly deteriorates when some of the presidents men convince the President to conduct covert actions against the cartel, in direct violation of congress. Felix Cortez, the security chief of Ernesto Escobeda, the "victim" of the missing money, is one of the cartel boss's. Cortez tries to play both sides, appearing to inform Escobeda about the CIA's involvement in the covert operations against him, while trying to orchestrate a coup to take over the cartel, with Cortez as it's sole boss. James Cutter, the President's National Security Advisor, makes his own deal with Cortez, with the Presidents knowledge, and halts communications to the covert troops still in Colombia, through the Deputy Director of Operations, CIA, Robert Ritter. Ryan ends up going to Colombia to rescue the covet ops troops with the help of field agent John Clark, but not before some fence mending between the two, being that Ritter blamed Ryan for the comm outage, with Clark's men subsequently being captured by Cortez's mercenaries.
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Harrison Ford |
Willem Dafoe |
Anne Archer |
Joaquim de Almeida |
Henry Czerny |
Harris Yulin |
Donald Moffat |
Miguel Sandoval |
Benjamin Bratt |
Raymond Cruz |
Dean Jones |
Thora Birch |
Ann Magnuson |
Hope Lange |
Tom Tammi |
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Phillip Noyce |
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Once again, New York cop John McClane is in the wrong place at the wrong time - this time he's waiting for his wife's plane to arrive at Washington's Dulles Airport when he uncovers a plot to sabotage the airport's landing system. The criminals wish to free a drug baron being extradited to America for trial by holding the airport to ransom until they all safely escape on another plane. However, if they'd known that Holly McClane was on a flight home to the very airport they were hijacking, they would have picked another day.
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Bruce Willis |
Bonnie Bedelia |
William Atherton |
William Sadler |
Reginald Johnson |
Franco Nero |
John Amos |
Dennis Franz |
Art Evans |
Fred Dalton Thompson |
Tom Bower |
Sheila McCarthy |
Don Harvey |
Tony Ganios |
Peter Nelson |
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Renny Harlin |
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In 1501, in the Western Europe, in a period when the black plague is jeopardizing the populations, an army of mercenary peasants leaded by Martin (Rutger Hauer) fights side-by-side with the noble Arnolfini (Fernando Hilbeck) to retrieve his castle, with the promise of a huge reward. However, the band is betrayed by Arnolfini, and decides to pay him back, assaulting and stealing a caravan under the command of Arnolfini and his son and student, Steven (Tom Burlinson). In one of the wagon is traveling the fiancée of Steven, Agnes (Jennifer Jason Leigh), who is accidentally kidnapped and later raped by the group. Agnes becomes Martin's mate, and the mercenaries decide to invade a castle, without knowing that the army of Arnolfini is chasing them.
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Rutger Hauer |
Jennifer Jason Leigh |
Tom Burlinson |
Jack Thompson |
Fernando Hilbeck |
Susan Tyrrell |
Ronald Lacey |
Brion James |
John Dennis Johnston |
Simón Andreu |
Bruno Kirby |
Kitty Courbois |
Marina Saura |
Hans Veerman |
Jake Wood |
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Paul Verhoeven |
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The world is full of zombies and the survivors have barricaded themselves inside a walled city to keep out the living dead. As the wealthy hide out in skyscrapers and chaos rules the streets, the rest of the survivors must find a way to stop the evolving zombies from breaking into the city.
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Horror |
Thriller |
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Simon Baker |
John Leguizamo |
Dennis Hopper |
Asia Argento |
Robert Joy |
Eugene Clark |
Joanne Boland |
Tony Nappo |
Jennifer Baxter |
Boyd Banks |
Jasmin Geljo |
Max McCabe |
Tony Munch |
Shawn Roberts |
Pedro Miguel Arce |
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George A. Romero |
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T. E. Lawrence is a young maladjusted lieutenant in the British Army in North Africa during World War One. Unhappy with his current assignment coloring maps, he is ecstatic when he is offered a job as an observer in what is now Arabia. At this point, the story of his life becomes the stuff that legends are made of.
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Peter O'Toole |
Alec Guinness |
Anthony Quinn |
Jack Hawkins |
Omar Sharif |
José Ferrer |
Anthony Quayle |
Claude Rains |
Arthur Kennedy |
Donald Wolfit |
I.S. Johar |
Gamil Ratib |
Michel Ray |
John Dimech |
Zia Mohyeddin |
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David Lean |
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At the height of its glory, the French Foreign Legion was made up of men widely regarded as the scum of the earth. It was a mercenary army posted to colonies in Northern Africa and Southern Asia...but its soldiers swore no allegiance to France, only to the legion and to each other. The legion asked no questions about a man's past...nor did it offer much hope for his future. It was a hard way to get a second chance in life...
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Jean-Claude Van Damme |
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje |
Steven Berkoff |
Nicholas Farrell |
Jim Carter |
Ana Sofrenovic |
Daniel Caltagirone |
Joseph Long |
Mario Kalli |
Joe Montana |
Kim Romer |
Anders Peter Bro |
Paul Kynman |
Vincent Pickering |
Takis Triggelis |
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Peter MacDonald |
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A wave of kidnappings has swept through Mexico, feeding a growing sense of panic among its wealthier citizens, especially parents. In one six-day period, there were twenty-four abductions, leading many to hire bodyguards for their children. Into this world enters John Creasy, a burned-out ex-CIA operative/assassin, who has given up on life. Creasy's friend Rayburn brings him to Mexico City to be a bodyguard to nine-year-old Pita Ramos, daughter of industrialist Samuel Ramos and his wife Lisa. Creasy is not interested in being a bodyguard, especially to a youngster, but for lack of something better to do, he accepts the assignment. Creasy barely tolerates the precocious child and her pestering questions about him and his life. But slowly, she chips away at his seemingly impenetrable exterior, his defenses drop, and he opens up to her. Creasy's new-found purpose in life is shattered when Pita is kidnapped. Despite being seriously wounded during the kidnapping, he vows to kill anyone involved in or profiting from the kidnapping. And no one can stop him.
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Adventure |
Crime |
Drama |
Thriller |
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Denzel Washington |
Dakota Fanning |
Marc Anthony |
Radha Mitchell |
Christopher Walken |
Giancarlo Giannini |
Rachel Ticotin |
Jesús Ochoa |
Mickey Rourke |
Angelina Peláez |
Gustavo Sánchez Parra |
Gero Camilo |
Rosa María Hernández |
Heriberto Del Castillo |
Mario Zaragoza |
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Tony Scott |
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